The Committee to Protect Journalists condemns Equatorial Guinea’s censorship of coverage of events in North Africa, the Middle East, and Ivory Coast. A state radio presenter’s reference to Libya during a live radio program on Friday led censors to abruptly force the journalist off the air and order an indefinite suspension from the country’s tightly monitored national airwaves, according to local journalists and news reports.
Equatorial Guinea is among a few governments in Sub-Saharan Africa that have imposed a total news blackout on events in North Africa and the Middle East, according to CPJ research.